The Bihar Police on Monday Jan Suraaj party founder Prashant Kishor, who has been on an indefinite hunger strike to press for cancellation of the recently held Bihar Public Service Commission preliminary examination, reported ANI.

The police also vacated Gandhi Maidan in Patna, where the strike was being held, after clashes with the protestors broke out, according to the news agency.

Civil services aspirants in Bihar who appeared for the 70th Combined (Preliminary) Competitive Examination on December 13 have been protesting in Patna since December 18, alleging a at one of the centres.

They have that CCTV cameras and jammers were not functioning at several examination centres and that question papers were distributed late at some.

Kishor began his strike against the “the ruined education and corrupt examination system” on January 2.